Mark Gregory Pegg: 2 books
The Corruption of Angels
The Great Inquisition of 1245-1246
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
On two hundred and one days between May 1, 1245, and August 1, 1246, more than five thousand people from the Lauragais were questioned in Toulouse about the heresy of the good men and the good women (more commonly known as Catharism). Nobles and diviners, butchers and monks, concubines and physicians,...
A Most Holy War
The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2008
In January of 1208, a papal legate was murdered on the banks of the Rhone in southern France. A furious Pope Innocent III accused heretics of the crime and called upon all Christians to exterminate heresy between the Garonne and Rhone rivers--a vast region now known as Languedoc--in a great crusade....